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Hungary: Surfing Among Ice Floes

In: Behind the Iron Curtain

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  • György Kövér

    (Eötvös Loránd University)

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After the communist takeover during the 1950s, Zsigmond Pál Pach was appointed as head of the Department of Economic History at the newly founded Karl Marx University of Economics. Iván T. Berend and György Ránki became the first students in this cradle of Marxist economic history. After 1956 an important vehicle of the opening toward the West were long-term grants to foreign countries. During the Cold War, the small nations of East Central Europe had only limited scope for action. The initiative for the Budapest IEHA conference in 1982 originated from Moscow. However, on the base of established international contacts and scientific embeddedness, Hungarian economic history writing was able to grow out from this “advanced post” position and fulfill a mediator function between East and West. Hungarian economic history research reached its pinnacle in the 1980s.

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  • György Kövér, 2023. "Hungary: Surfing Among Ice Floes," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Antonie Doležalová & Catherine Albrecht (ed.), Behind the Iron Curtain, chapter 0, pages 127-157, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-31578-7_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31578-7_5
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